Transportation Engineering: Transportation Equity

Bringing together the most up-to-date perspectives and practical approaches for assessing transportation equity in relation to accessibility, environmental impacts, health, and wellbeing, the book sets standards for conducting social impact analyses in transport planning.

Offers detailed guidance on how to improve and balance different modes of transportation to help cities achieve economic development, social equity, and ecological sustainability goals.

Drawing on legal precedents, voices from the grassroots, and academic research, Highway Robbery bridges intellectual disciplines and activist movements by linking the national inequalities in transportation to larger economic, health, environmental justice, and quality of life issues.

Includes information on how transportation spending and choices in in Charlotte, Silicon Valley, Salt Lake City, and Seattle and how they address the challenges of economic restructuring and social divides.

Includes information on transportation's environmental impact analysis, enhancing accessibility to social services, and providing transportation and opportunities to disadvantaged groups

Examines how past failures to address fundamental inequalities in the ability of low-income households to access adequate transport has undermined effective delivery of welfare policies in the US and UK and describes the new policies and initiatives being developed to address this oversight.

Includes chapter: Urban Transportation and Social Equity; Transportation-Planning Paradigms that Impede Policy Reform

Examines how the popularity of urban bicycling is trailed by systemic issues of racism, classism, and displacement while also giving positive examples of people trying to bring their community together through bicycling.

Provides research-based insights on potential public benefits and impacts of shared mobility services, automated vehicles, and electric vehicles, including more transportation choices, greater affordability and accessibility, and healthier, more livable cities.

Includes information on transportation planning, transit-oriented development, and promoting a shift in policy from mobility to accessibility.

Includes chapters on Environmental Justice and Transportation Equity, Clean and Just Transportation in Northern Manhattan, and Linking Transportation Equity and Environmental Justice with Smart Growth.

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists published from 1936-1966. .

Combining an exploration of planning documents, sociological studies, and popular culture, Paul Fotsch shows how city planners used new transportation technologies to foster stability for business and the white middle class while excluding women and the poor, especially Africa Americans, by isolating them in homes and urban ghettoes.

The U.S. interstate highway system cut through and destroyed countless communities. This book tells of a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction.

In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men who migrated to Detroit from the South in the hope of gaining greater economic security. As they realized that Ford's anti-union "American Plan" did not allow them full access to the American Dream, they pursued a broad activist agenda and played a pivotal role in the United Auto Workers' challenge to Ford's interests.

Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit examines how black workers' activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class.